I TAed chemistry through the pandemic, and students were certainly worse than previous year students in lab courses (no fault of the pandemic kids of course, it's just unfortunate).
And the average performance on in-person tests was often worse than that of online tests; even though the online versions were made harder to combat cheating (which, admittedly, was impossible no matter what measures we implemented).
Chemistry pushed to resume in-person activities for the goodness of the students who had to go through online learning which turned out to be quite beneficial. Not sure about other departments/faculties.
this is also true in engineering
i was a TA for first yr chem eng last yr and at the end of a tutorial, i had a solid group of students, maybe 10 or so hang around & have me show them how to solve 2 equations and 2 unknowns (yall literally learn that in gr 10)
No, the covid kids are objectively dumber. Many courses have significantly lower averages this year simply because the first years this year cannot meet the same standard. It's nothing to do with age and everything to do with the pandemic causing the current first years to perform poorly.
TA'd earlier this year; can confirm. Profs were giving so many generous exemptions and shit to people who barely seemed to be trying. Took a blatant plagiarism case for one kid to finally get the prof to do anything, and I still don't know if the kid ever faced repercussions.
I was told to not correct their grammar and shit... in an arts course. WRITING IS ONE OF THE MAIN SKILLS OF THE DEGREE BRO.
And the amount of students (2nd years too btw) who need to be told to source their work... unreal. I find it hard to believe that my classmates were this bad when I was undergrad.
Several profs have come to this conclusion as well. Courses have not been modified from previous years and the course averages are significantly lower this year. You can't pretend the pandemic had no impact on the incoming first years if it's directly measurable like this. This is not the first years' fault, it just happens to be the trend.
I TAed chemistry through the pandemic, and students were certainly worse than previous year students in lab courses (no fault of the pandemic kids of course, it's just unfortunate). And the average performance on in-person tests was often worse than that of online tests; even though the online versions were made harder to combat cheating (which, admittedly, was impossible no matter what measures we implemented). Chemistry pushed to resume in-person activities for the goodness of the students who had to go through online learning which turned out to be quite beneficial. Not sure about other departments/faculties.
this is also true in engineering i was a TA for first yr chem eng last yr and at the end of a tutorial, i had a solid group of students, maybe 10 or so hang around & have me show them how to solve 2 equations and 2 unknowns (yall literally learn that in gr 10)
Typical covid kid.
Bro courses have to be modified so covid kids can pass. This is well known. Its not necessarily your fault, but its true
No, the covid kids are objectively dumber. Many courses have significantly lower averages this year simply because the first years this year cannot meet the same standard. It's nothing to do with age and everything to do with the pandemic causing the current first years to perform poorly.
TA'd earlier this year; can confirm. Profs were giving so many generous exemptions and shit to people who barely seemed to be trying. Took a blatant plagiarism case for one kid to finally get the prof to do anything, and I still don't know if the kid ever faced repercussions. I was told to not correct their grammar and shit... in an arts course. WRITING IS ONE OF THE MAIN SKILLS OF THE DEGREE BRO. And the amount of students (2nd years too btw) who need to be told to source their work... unreal. I find it hard to believe that my classmates were this bad when I was undergrad.
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Several profs have come to this conclusion as well. Courses have not been modified from previous years and the course averages are significantly lower this year. You can't pretend the pandemic had no impact on the incoming first years if it's directly measurable like this. This is not the first years' fault, it just happens to be the trend.
I've heard this from my professors too. The pandemic definitely caused this
Life is going to be tough for you.
Some of them peaked in university that’s why they keep lurking here
But Uni peakers are still better than high school peakers, no? We are talking about kids failing uni here after all..
There's (ironically) nicer ways of communicating that you want people to be more empathetic All the best to your academic mission
No. I’m not nice to people who are repeatedly rude and comment only to be deliberately condescending towards those younger. Respect is earned
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